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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
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Bigs Favors Friendship
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions
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Coffee People Wise
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman… because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
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Firsts Men Ruin
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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Law Liberty Umpires
Virtue in a republic is the love of one’s country, that is the love of equality.
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Country Republic Virtue
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
Experience constantly proves that every man who has power is impelled to abuse it; he goes on till he is pulled up by some limits. Who would say it! virtue even has need of limits.
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Abuse Men Power
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
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Democracy Equality Love
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties

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